Cummings: Resolving Deepwater Will Require a Long Term Commitment
U.S. Congressman Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation, convened a Subcommittee hearing to examine the Coast Guard's fiscal year 2008 budget and to receive testimony from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Inspector General, Richard Skinner, and a representative of the Government Accountability Office (GAO), Mr. Stephen Caldwell, regarding their on-going examinations of the Deepwater procurement. Congressman Cummings said, "Today's hearing provided the Subcommittee's first opportunity to examine the Coast Guard's fiscal year 2008 budget and to begin the development of the new Coast Guard reauthorization.
DHS Report Shows Need for Transformation of Coast Guard's Contracting Processes
U.S. Congressman Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation, issued the following statement in response to the release of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Inspector General's (IG) report on the 110-foot/123-foot patrol boat modernization project. This report was developed by the DHS IG following the receipt of a Hotline Complaint alleging that the 123-foot patrol boat and the 24.6-foot prosecutor crafts designed to be launched from the 123-foot cutter and other larger cutters contained safety and security vulnerabilities due to the failure of contractors installing new equipment on the crafts to meet the requirements of the Deepwater contract.
